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As someone who's been the big fish (not by choice), there is a cost to it too.  When you basically can cruise through school half asleep and writing with your left foot, you are not developing the skills you should be developing.  You simply don't know what you don't know.  And no one is paying attention because "you'll do fine, no matter what"[/quote]
Do you feel the same applies to college? Meaning, is it better to go to a top, top school or is it better to go to a lesser ranked school and be the big fish at college?

Like many of the readers, my kid has been going to large, public schools her entire schooling life in MCPS. I view college as her chance to get the smaller, private experience.[/quote]

It depends on the college. Unless your child is an absolute genius, they will not be a big fish to that extent at [b]Amherst/Williams/Swarthmore[/b]... but if you're talking about Goucher or Shenandoah then they are running that risk [/quote]

99.999% of students at expensive colleges end up with the same salary as students from UMD, UVA or VATech.[/quote]

False [/quote]

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